New York - The 1999 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, Dr Gunter Blobel, said yesterday he would donate his prize money to Dresden, the eastern German city destroyed by Allied bombing in the second World War.
The German-born Dr Blobel (63) said he would give the 7.9 million kronor (£65,000) prize to the Friends of Dresden Inc, an independent organisation he created and where he is president of the board of directors.
"I saw the destruction of Dresden from very near, only a few miles away; I was eight years old; I was very much impressed, (and) nothing has impressed me more," said Dr Blobel, who won the prize for his work on how newly made proteins are transported in cells. "The destruction of Dresden is the greatest single loss to European architecture."